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It appears the world finally has an effective Ebola vaccine. A new study reports that a vaccine designed by scientists working at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg induces a quick ...

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I paid $6,000 for my wedding photos and got a USB key with almost 1,000 digital images. Another $2,000 was paid to our videographer for a 15-minute highlight reel, which I uploaded to You-Tube. Another grand went to a photo-booth company so guests could keep photos for themselves and glue the rest into our guest book.

Legendary New York advertising genius Jerry Della Femina, one of the inspirations for TV's Mad Men, is planning his own TV series, says the New York Post. It'll be about Madison Avenue in the 1970s, after the Mad Men era. As he tells it, the '70s were a wild and crazy time: drugs, the sexual revolution, money, great ads made by clever people ... Della Femina's 1970 book about the ad game was called From Those Wonderful

Aziz Ansari, the U.S. comedian best known for playing the overconfident slacker Tom Haverford on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, has made being a feminist somewhat of a cornerstone of his postsitcom career.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 120 civilians and wounded more than 150 after shelling a residential area in the Yemeni province of Taiz on Friday evening, security officials, medical officials and witnesses said.

Not long ago, ethnically mixed couples - involving whites, blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Chinese, South Asians or others - were heralded as the wave of a tolerant, open, non-racist future. National Geographic and Time magazine ran cover features with photos of mixed-race people, celebrating "The New Face of America." The hero in the Warren Beatty movie, Bulworth, trumpeted inter-marriage as the way to end racial discrimination.

The federal policy that forbids people from covering their faces while taking the oath of citizenship violates freedom of religion and perpetuates prejudice and stereotyping, lawyers for the Muslim woman who started a national debate on the issue plan to argue in court. Lawyers for Zunera Ishaq recently filed notice with the Federal Court of Appeal of their intent to challenge the constitutional validity of the niqab ban.

Most Canadians feel a stronger sense of belonging to their country than their province or community - and for many immigrants, their country of origin, according to Statistics Canada's new General Social Survey on Social Identity based on 2013 data from people aged 15 years and older. The National Post's Sadaf Ahsan looks at some of the survey's findings, and how multiculturalism and life experience are shaping Canadians.

Hundreds of thousands of people filled a park in Ecuador's main port city Monday for Pope Francis's first big event of his three-nation South American tour, hoping for a glimpse of Latin America's first Pope.

Court documents show a man accused of sending letter bombs to Winnipeg lawyers and his ex-wife has been in a decadelong battle with his former spouse that includes accusations of theft, impersonation and a wedding ring being flushed down a toilet.